Former Omaha Mayor Hal Daub spoke to the River City Republicans at the Garden Café on Monday about redistricting and his predictions for the 2022 election. Daub been consulting with a few state senators, including Lou Ann Linehan, on the plan, with a focus to withstand potential court challenges from groups such as Obama’s “Organizing for America.” One particular strategy is creating a trail of paperwork showing a good faith effort to work with more liberal state senators and get their support for the plan, which included 9 of 17 on the committee.
As such, Daub is optimistic about Republicans’ change of gains in the 2022 midterm elections. He personally predicted that Republicans would gain 42 seats in the House and 3 Senate seats nationally, as well as gaining 3-5 seats in the Nebraska state legislature for a filibuster-proof “supermajority” (which is nominally nonpartisan but obviously not so in practice).
